by Binna Burra | Jun 5, 2023 | Family Stories
My father, Gordon Holt, bought shares from Arthur Groom on 15 March, 1933, the story being he bought them in Queen Street and that Arthur Groom used to walk down from the Lamington area to Brisbane at times. Family folklore has that he knew Arthur Groom and was...
by Binna Burra | May 8, 2023 | Family Stories
In this Binna Burra family story, Fran Shute shares memories of her husband Laurie’s arrival at the lodge in the 1960s and how they met. Laurie started as a maintenance worker, but his skills as a fitter, turner, and toolmaker soon became valuable in designing...
by Binna Burra | Jul 29, 2022 | Family Stories
Graeme Muller and John Muller had a nice lunch at the Binna Burra Tea House on Friday 29 July 2022, after a chat âdown memory laneâ at Groomâs Cottage with Steve Noakes, Chair of the Board of Binna Burra Lodge Ltd. The Muller family has a long history with Binna...
by Binna Burra | Jun 29, 2022 | Family Stories, News
Australiaâs Governor-General David Hurley and his wife Linda revisited Binna Burra on Tuesday 25 May 2021. Acknowledging Suzanne Noakes and Mark Ayers as representatives of the Beechmont Rural Fire Brigade, Governor General led the official unveiling of the Local...
by Binna Burra | Mar 17, 2022 | Family Stories
Two early shareholders in Queensland Holiday Resorts (Binna Burra Lodge) Source: www.whbryanscholarship.org.au Holidaying at âBinna Burraâ â 1946By Bob Bryan AM [1] At the end of the War, my father WH Bryan MC was second in charge to Professor HC Richards in the...
by Binna Burra | Nov 30, 2021 | Family Stories
BINNA BURRA STORIES. Memories of Binna Burra â Catherine Gzell. My mother tells me I first went to Binna Burra when I was 6 weeks old, and I cried a lot. Her father Len Butts became a shareholder of Binna Burra after the end of the Second World War. He liked it as a...
